April 8, 1992
Education Week, Vol. 11, Issue 29
Education
Urban Chiefs, Boards Agree on State of Relations
WASHINGTON--Urban superintendents and school-board members may not always agree, but a new survey by the National School Boards Association shows that both groups identify similar factors as undermining their relations.
Education
Class for Overweight Students at Ill. School Promotes Healthy Habits
ANTIOCH, ILL.--Although they may never appear in a Jane Fonda exercise video, the students in Debbie Rummel's physical-education class here would be satisfied just to achieve the body of an average Jane or Joe.
Education
Toledo Board Backs Teacher Contract Amid Charges of Bias
After twice delaying the vote, the Toledo, Ohio, school board last week ratified a new contract with the Toledo Federation of Teachers, despite black leaders' charges that the agreement includes a clause that discriminates against minorities.
Education
Scalia's Concurrence
Our decision will be of great assistance to the citizens of DeKalb County, who for the first time since 1969 will be able to run their own public schools, at least so far as student assignments are concerned.
Education
Academy Panel Urges Wide-Ranging Effort to 'Rebuild' O.E.R.I.
WASHINGTON--Concluding that the Education Department's research arm has been rendered ineffective by underfunding and organizational weakness, a National Academy of Sciences panel last week issued a sweeping blueprint to ''rebuild'' the office of educational research and improvement.
Education
National News Roundup
A national gun violence-prevention organization last week introduced a new curriculum for grades pre-K through 12 and announced its implementation in five major school districts.
Education
Highlights of Academy Report Examining Roles for O.E.R.I.
Highlights of the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences' report, "Research and Education Reform: Roles for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement":
Education
Legislative Update
The following are summaries of governors' budget requests for precollegiate education and highlights of proposals that rank high on the states' education agendas.
Education
Facing Suit, La. Governor Offers School-Finance Plan
Facing a new lawsuit calling for more equitable distribution of Louisiana's education dollars, Gov. Edwin W. Edwards last week proposed a $2.5-billion education budget that includes $38.2 million for the first year of a five-year program to revamp the way the state funds public education
Education
Colo. Bill Allows Schools To Secede From Districts
The Colorado House last week approved a bill that would allow individual public schools, with faculty and parental approval, to withdraw from their school districts to attempt new educational approaches.
Education
Q&A: Psychologist Discusses Research on Shyness in Children
Since 1978, Jerome Kagan, the Starch Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, has been researching shyness in children.
Education
Mass. Proposal Seeks To Tighten Spec.-Ed. Eligibility
In an effort to control the rising numbers of pupils in special education, Massachusetts school officials are proposing to tighten the state's definition of who qualifies for disabled-student programs.
Education
State Journal: Store giveaway?; Leave us alone
Appointments to Connecticut's binding-arbitration panel for teacher contracts, which usually are confirmed without opposition by the legislature, have touched off a partisan dispute among lawmakers this year.
Education
Philanthropy Column
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has awarded a $1.5-million grant to the Carter Center to support the center's Atlanta Project, a program designed to improve the quality of life for the city's low-income children and families.
Education
Plans To Shift Funds to Domestic Programs Appear Dead
WASHINGTON--Setbacks in both the House and Senate have effectively doomed prospects for a transfer of defense dollars to domestic programs this year, virtually ensuring that the appropriations process will feature tightly restricted spending choices and competitive lobbying efforts by domestic interest groups.
Education
Plan To Reopen Episcopal School in N.Y. Approved
A New York State judge has approved a plan by the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island to retain control of and reopen a school it closed last year, rejecting an attempt by a group of parents, alumni, and teachers to take it over.
Education
Lead Researcher Probed on Charges of Skewing Data
A prominent researcher whose work has been instrumental in persuading health officials to adopt a stricter standard for acceptable levels of childhood exposure to lead is being investigated on charges that he manipulated data in his seminal study on lead poisoning.
Education
News In Brief
The power of school administrators to censor student newspapers would be limited, under a measure approved late last month by the Wisconsin legislature.
Education
Souter's Concurrence
We recognize that although demographic changes influencing the composition of a school's student population may well have no causal link to prior de jure segregation,judicial control of student assignments may still be necessary to remedy persisting vestiges of the unconstitutional dual system....
Education
Federal File: Singing for his supper; Most charitable; Another try?
Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander called on his musical skills last week when he was chosen to be the Republican Party's designated comedian at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, an organization of Washington journalists.
Education
Blackmun's Concurrence
JUSTICE BLACKMUN, with whom JUSTICE STEVENS and JUSTICE O'CONNOR join, concurring in the judgment. . . .
Education
District News Roundup
A former senior accountant with the Detroit Public Schools has been charged with embezzling more than $1.28 million from school funds.
Education
Asked To 'Dream,' Students Beat the Odds
In March 1985, a 15-year-old named David Nieves wrote:
Education
Report Links Drug Dependency to Child-Welfare Problems
WASHINGTON--Drug and alcohol dependency are contributing to increases in domestic violence, child abuse, and the placement of children in foster care, a report released last week concludes.
Education
In the Press
"Stigma, the endemic devaluation many blacks face in our society and school ," is at the heart of their school failure, a social psychologist writes in the April issue of The Atlantic.
Education
Chicago School Board's Restructuring Plan Rejected
Declaring that the Chicago Board of Education i incapable of decentralizing the school system's bureaucracy, an oversight panel has announced that it will launch its own investigation into what the city's schools need and want from the administration.
Education
Parent Discontent Fuels Spirited School-Board Races in Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J.--Caroline Angrisani can recall a time in this small university town when school-board elections generated barely a ripple of interest.
Education
School-Law Experts See Limited Impact of Ruling
School-law experts agreed last week that the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the DeKalb County, Ga., school-desegregation case will be relatively mild.